30-06, Accubonds and moose?

My step son killed a Yukon moose with 165 gr Ballistic Tips in his .300 Winchester, so I doubt you have much to worry about; the 180 gr AB being a better, heavier bullet, and the .30/06 producing a lower impact velocity. I would expect good expansion and weight retention and about 18" of penetration.
 
The last 6 moose I have shot were with either partitions or Accubonds, both are very effective on moose. I use the accubond in my 325, STW, and 270, and partitions in my 30-06, 7mm-08, and 7x57.
 
Boomer said:
My step son killed a Yukon moose with 165 gr Ballistic Tips in his .300 Winchester, so I doubt you have much to worry about; the 180 gr AB being a better, heavier bullet, and the .30/06 producing a lower impact velocity. I would expect good expansion and weight retention and about 18" of penetration.
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Glad to hear you hunt with your step son. I have two which I care for and consider my own. Can't wait to hunt with them one day.
 
Not a 30 06 but I shot a moose last year at 170 m with a .308 and a 165 Accubond. It went down with one shot. So would a 180 work in 30 06, absolutely. Shot placement is key in my opinion.
 
I've been using 200grn Accubonds from my 300WM, lots of bullet for moose.

So much so that I've never recovered one.

I did recover one from an unfortunate incident with a deer shot end to end the 200grn bullet retained 180grns after traveling the lenght of the deer.
 
My experience with accubonds and moose is great. Grest penetration, significant wound channel, but still not too much meat spoiled.

They have never failed to drop an animal quickly and at least for me have been very accurate. My savage 30-06 loaded with these is my most trusted combination.
 
I've been using partitions for moose and they work awesome. I just developed a load with accubonds and they are more accurate in my rifle and if they perform nearly as good as the partitions they'll be great.

Moose are really easy to kill, hit them in the lung and they usually take 2-3 steps at the most.

The only moose I ever saw run was hit in the lung from 80 yards with a 303. It ran about 100 yards then came back and died where it was shot. Weird.
Out of, probably, 50 moose I've seen killed that was the only one that ran.

Your accubonds will be more than fine.
 
I have not shot a moose with the 30 cal 180 NAB yet, but have no doubt it would be just fine.
I did shoot a nice bull about 4 years ago with the 200 NAB from my 8x57, and it was a passthrough,
and spelled instant death to the moose. Range was about 200 meters.
Regards, Dave.
 
I am currently using H4350, have tried RL22, and H414 as well, all were great but in my rifle 4350 showed a slight edge in velocity consistency and accuracy.
 
Over the years I've used a bunch of different powder to drive 180s in the '06. If you don't mind compressed loads, H-4831 seems to be about as slow as you want to go, for optimum performance and 4895 is about as fast. I've found that R-19 and H100V are almost ideal in that they produce good velocity without being compressed.
 
The reason I went with RL22 is that the Nosler load data states it as the most accurate and still going 2800fps (I imagine with a 26" barrel). I used the .375 H&H recipe out of the Nosler book, 73gr of RL15 with my 260 accubonds and shot a 3/4 inch 5 shot group and that is not embellishing the results at all. Speed was nowhere near what it said it was. I think 2680 off the top of my head but I would have to check my handbook. Felt like it was going 8200 fps off that bench though......
 
Took my new 30-06 load to the range. 61.5 grains RL22, 180 Accubonds, seated off the lands .010" and CCI200 primers. Shot a 0.6" 4 shot group at 100 yards. Forgot the dang chrony though.......Rifle is an FN M70 SG.
 
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